William Jennings Bryan Quotes

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Stand up for what you know is right.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

Political courage is not political suicide.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

The world is full of men who think and teach what is right. But as soon as they are called upon to act, they are assailed by doubts and fears.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

Giving children the sense that you always ought to speak up for what's right, even if it costs you something, that's something you can do.

I would rather stand for what I believe in than bow down and be loved.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

I stand up for the things I believe in.